Show I 1 AFFECTION THAT NEVER DIES I 1 old friends have a place in the heart from which they never can be removed As an to old friends they are like old shousan sho esan abiding comfort and a great solace it they have riot not been tried in ili extremity they havo have been tested by time and its mutations and by the 1 wear ot of years thoro there Is ia little more beautiful in human experience than I 1 friendships between I 1 I 1 r I 1 r women grown far into the years for foi and yet who have maintained their communion of dreams and con unbroken and unspoiled there la is little more refreshing to con template friendships between middle aged or old men that have existed in strength and harmony from boyhood days other friendships have these folks of the passing gone generation ration some soma of them true some of then them tried but nono none of them as richly regarded and highly treasured as aa he old ones onca for necessarily there are I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 many things that occur in a lifetime which jar or disturb us which give a different turn to our and disposition which introduce changing elements and predilections problems of the day and times of the present and future can never bo be tile the samo same as in the long ago yet tho the old friends lenila fr remain possibly not in the same baroo neighborhood or community nor in the tha same part of tile the country hut they are ever within the tha boundaries of our spiritual vision end and they are enshrined in the sanctuary of the tha I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 heart without them we should be lonesome in a crowd and sometimes should feel as if we had been abandoned though surrounded by our own household and loved ones old friends in brief have a niche all their own a position in our affections pe cullar only to them which no alien in fluence may approach pittsburgh gazette times |